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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






2. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






3. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






4. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






5. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






6. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






7. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






8. What is normal BMI?






9. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






10. When does BMR decrease?






11. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






12. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






13. What is the function of vitamin E?






14. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






15. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






16. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






17. Name six sources of grains






18. Where can you get more vitamin D?






19. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






20. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






21. What type of people need extra protein?






22. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






23. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






24. Fats can lead to some medical problems






25. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






26. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






27. What does DASH stand for?






28. What is RDA of protein?






29. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






30. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






31. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






32. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






33. What is the function of vitamin C?






34. What foods have high quality protein?






35. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






36. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






37. Sources of fats






38. When does BMR increase?






39. How many calories/gram is protein?






40. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






41. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






42. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






43. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






44. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






45. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






46. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






47. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






48. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






49. What is normal albumin levels?






50. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value